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Italians join campaign for safer cycling in the city

March 17 2012, 12:01am, The Times

Italians put on their helmets, checked the brakes and yesterday joined the pack trying to improve the safety of urban cyclists.

Taking direct inspiration from the Times cycle safety campaign, word of which is being spread around the world by the #cyclesafe tag on Twitter, Italian bloggers have teamed up with the national newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport and II Corriere della Sera to launch Salva i ciclisti, an Italian take on the “Save our cyclists” headline that launched the Times campaign on February 2.

Already 63 members of the Italian Parliament in Rome have pledged their support.

The first demand of the Italian manifesto calls on the Government to “guarantee the application at a local level of the eight points of the Times manifesto…